Journey into the Cave - Gua Tempurung, Perak

If you googled about Gua Tempurung, you can find few information about this beautiful cave .. Located a few minutes away from the highway exit in Gopeng, the cave gives you a fantastic view and adventure inside the largest natural limestone structure in Peninsular Malaysia. You can get more information here: http://www.guatempurung.com.

The place only close 2 times a year- which is during Eid Festival (Hari Raya Aidilfitri) & Haj holiday. If you're not from Malaysia, try google for Malaysian's Calendar for the exact dates as it change every year ..

Me, Dida and Jean

How to get there:
No matter where you're coming from (north or south), just take the PLUS highway and exit at Gopeng. Turn left and probably less than 10 mins, you'll see the signboard to the cave area on your left .. they open at 9am, but normally they will wait until 11am before they bring you in.. unless you're already in big group (which is more than 20) ..  


I've been there few times, and always enjoy the cave.. this time, I bring friends from Couchsurfing, Dida and Jean. We took the most adventure trip for the cave - which took us almost 4 hours .. it's not that hard though .. just get ready for lots of crawling and getting wet.. 

If you notice the first picture, looks like a man with Serban, that's why they call it Osama bin Laden :)

Before you do the caving, make sure you:
1. Wear long pants if you don't want to hurt your knee (or wear a knee pad)
2. Bring torchlight- or you can buy for RM10 at the entrance
3. Bring extra clothes, you definitely gonna get wet..
4. Wear cloth that you don't really like - it does has the possibility to be torn at the end of journey
5. Wear proper shoes for wet activities..

Crawling ...

Some of the challenge you have to do..

Slides for about 9m down

Overall, it was a fun activity to do during the weekend .. if you haven't tried this, I would highly recommend it .. :D